Owney’s stamp is unveiled!
Big, big changes coming up this week; dudes, I’m getting married.  Also, we *may* have found an apartment for the next phase adventure.
Anyway, after a week of traveling for work, followed by apartment hunting and exploring a my new city, interrupted by a sneaky, 22 hour trip to Martha’s Vineyard to [...]

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Just a friendly reminder from the American Postal Workers’ Union…  Absolutely zero tax payer dollars are used to support the USPS!  They deliver a ton of mail (several tons, actually) and it’s supported entirely by stamp and postage sales.  In case you’d like to do your part to help out the USPS– the 2011 stamps [...]

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Love this “postcard” that WBEZ put together about Detroit’s floating post office.  The ship, J.W. Westcott, is only 45 feet long but has its own zip code!  Since 1874 the service has delivered mail and other packages to the many large ships that come and go throughout the great lakes. Wikipedia explains that:

Any mail addressed [...]

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So very intrigued by “the Airmail,” a rum and champagne cocktail that I first came across on a blog based out of the UK.  I’ve found several variations on this recipe (just tweaking the ratios a bit) but very little on the origins of this drink.  According to Esquire’s “resident cocktail historian,” “[the Airmail] simply [...]

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Some very dear friends will be married this August… Their save the dates are playful, charming, and a perfect summation of their equally playful and charming relationship.  I’m so proud to say that I consulted with them while they put together these save-the-dates!  They are deceptively simple to do: custom stamp, stayz-on ink, and a [...]

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Here is the thing, as a soon-to-be full time student, I feel that I shouldn’t just agree to spend $38 per month every month.  And yet, here is this awesome thing called Lost Crates that promises:
Each month you will receive a “crate” of items, ranging from classic notebooks from the best known brands, to hidden [...]

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I loved the book jacket description of Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: “A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.”  I picked [...]

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I participated in a really great Swap-Bot swap for “A Nice Pair” of artistamps.  This swap was loads of fun, it gave me a lot to think about and an excuse to pull out some of my fake postage cancels, USPS stickers, etc.  What made me happiest, however, was this note I got from my [...]

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(Image via culch.ie)
Unlike the last two postal service redesigns I’ve shared with you, today’s is real!  By the way, I’m as surprised as you are to learn that I actually a) care about Irish postal uniforms and b) used this Irish Times story about them as a stepping stone an excuse to learn a bit [...]

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Just a few months after the (suggested) USPS rebranding, a team of Mash Creative’s designers has taken on the UK’s Royal Mail.  While I’m an admitted Anglophile, and have increasingly found myself wishing I could spend a year poking around London’s libraries, design shops, and BBC programming, this is a much more appealing postal identity [...]

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